Environement News Service
April 10, 2009, ENS

ESTES PARK, Colorado - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined members of the Colorado congressional delegation and local officials Thursday to dedicate the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Area, nearly 250,000 acres within the park that will be permanently protected from human impacts under the newly enacted Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009. In March, President Barack Obama signed the Act, a package of more than 160 bills, which includes provisions to protect two million acres of wilderness in nine states and a thousand miles of rivers....

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